If your mattress is sleeping too hot, try running a fan in front of your body or using a wet sheet to cool pulse points (wrists, neck, elbows, ankles and knees). Furthermore, consider placing a bowl of ice on your bed as another measure to stay cool while sleeping.
Some innerspring and hybrid mattresses from brands like Beautyrest utilize breathable spring coils that act as channels for air to move through, helping keep sleep cool. This design allows airflow while still remaining comfortable during use.
1. Breathable Covers
Breathable covers help your bed remain cooler by preventing heat and moisture buildup, typically made of cotton, wool, bamboo or other natural fibers with breathability properties that regulate body temperature. This mattress cover zips onto any 10-inch to 16-inch mattress height with ease for simple maintenance – machine washing also simplifies this task.
Mcfarland suggests cooling sheets crafted from fabrics such as organic cotton, eucalyptus or wood pulp-derived Tencel with percale weaves designed to be both breathable and durable can also help provide relief for hot sleepers, as they draw away sweat away from their bodies to cool the body down quickly and reduce sweat. These sheet sets wick away moisture away while simultaneously drawing heat away.
Cooling sheet sets made with phase change materials can also help regulate your core temperature by switching between liquid and solid states to absorb or release energy and regulate it as necessary. Such fabrics are popularly found in yoga pants and athletic gear because they absorb moisture easily while drawing away heat away from the body – plus many products feature an open, cool percale weave for even greater breathability!
2. Airflow
Airflow issues are one of the primary sources of heat in bed. To improve airflow around their beds and ensure more refreshing nights of restful rest for you, many mattress brands employ advanced technologies like open-cell foam and Celliant that help increase it. This allows your body to relax more quickly while replacing warm air from its surrounding environment with cooler air from within your bed, creating a soothing sleep experience for you and ensuring restful slumber for you!
Mattresses that incorporate gel use liquid beads to help wick away moisture and drive away heat, while other cooling materials include graphite (found in mattresses from Brentwood Crystal Cove and Zinus Green Tea Memory Foam), phase change material (PCM) or phase change material (PCM), which uses latent energy – which measures how much energy is required to change solid into liquid then gas. Brooklyn Bedding and Amerisleep both utilize PCM technology in order to maintain an ideal sleeping temperature.
Additionally to mattress cooling techniques, upgrading to natural fiber sheets and pillows will further improve your sleeping environment. Polyester sheets block airflow and make your mattress seem stuffy; while natural fabrics allow airflow around your body and help lower overall temperature.
3. Gel Infusions
Cooling gel mattress layers can assist with heat transfer. Due to its natural conductive action, cooling gel works to move away body heat while helping regulate sleep temperature. Additionally, other cooling materials like copper or phase change material may also be added for additional cooling effects.
Cooling gel is often employed in memory foam layers to address one of the primary complaints about mattress foam: sleeping hot. Brooklyn Bedding’s Aurora Luxe uses cooling gel in their memory foam comfort layer to reduce heat retention, providing contoured support to contour closely to body, relieve pressure points and create a huggy-like experience for maximum relaxation.
Bamboo charcoal infuses this mattress layer, helping reduce odors and keep the mattress fresh for extended use. Plus, slow response foams that isolate motion make this mattress ideal for couples that tend to move around at night. Furthermore, its solid polyfoam base offers long-term support and durability.
4. Copper Infusions
Copper is an inherently conductive material that draws body heat away from the skin to regulate temperature, providing long-lasting cooling effects on cooling mattresses or memory foam beds. Copper’s cooling effect may last as long as its life in either form – even longer!
Silver has long been valued as an essential metal, dating back to ancient Turkey and Greece around 3000 BCE when it was made into jewelry, utensils, dishes and other objects made out of it. Silver is also antimicrobial; killing bacteria and fungi to keep surfaces clean; additionally it works against dust mite growth.
Breathability plays an integral part in how cool your sleep surface is. Mattresses made of breathable materials like hybrid, innerspring and latex provide ample airflow, helping prevent heat build-up near the sleeper’s body. Cooling mattress toppers crafted from natural materials such as cotton wool or buckwheat hulls allow airflow while simultaneously cooling the surface; layer a cooling mattress topper between your fitted sheet and mattress for best results and to prevent the sheet from becoming too warm during sleep.
5. Ventilated Memory Foam
Memory foam mattresses are popular choices due to its contouring, motion isolation and pressure point relief capabilities. Unfortunately, however, its density means it sleeps hot due to how it molds to your body shape. To address this problem, some manufacturers utilize ventilated memory foam technology using graphite that regulates temperature by moving heat away from your body.
Contrary to regular memory foam’s closed-cell structure with small, tightly packed cells that trap heat, ventilated memory foam has an open cell structure with air channels to distribute air throughout and dissipate excess heat away from you as you sleep comfortably on it. This makes ventilation memory foam even more comfortable for sleep.
Many memory foam mattresses with this technology use layers of gel-infused ventilated memory foam to offer extra cooling benefits, from both inside out and on the surface. Gel infusions work to keep the mattress cool from within while ventilation makes it more breathable on its surface – ideal for anyone who experiences night sweats or simply prefers cooler sleeping experiences.
6. Quilted Covers
If you tend to sleep hot, an appropriate cooling mattress pad can help ensure you remain cool throughout the night. These products can either be used alone or layered onto any mattress you choose.
Mattresses featuring coils or innerspring construction tend to offer better cooling because there is more airflow through these materials, while foam mattresses can become warmer if there are too many foam layers covering their coils or too many foam covering the coils themselves.
To combat this issue, some brands like Brooklyn Bedding utilize GlacioTex fabric that’s both breathable and heat-trapping to help their mattresses remain cooler. This unique material can be found in their Aurora Luxe hybrid mattress which also includes CopperFlex foam that’s been infused with copper to increase airflow for cooling purposes. Latex mattresses like Brentwood Crystal Cove Memory foam and Zinus Green Tea Memory foams feature air channels within their covers in order to reduce trapped heat; additionally there are natural pinholes formed during latex production which improve heat distribution further.
7. Phase Change Materials
Mattress manufacturers use reticulated foams as fill material to facilitate airflow. Reticulation creates more open cells in the mattress bed that allow more room for air to pass through it and ultimately creates a cooler sleep surface.
Phase Change Materials (PCMs), composed of either organic or inorganic compounds that store heat energy as heat by melting and solidifying at specific temperatures, have become an increasingly popular component in mattress makers’ beds. Latexco, for instance, offers its poly foams coated with PCM technology while others like Brooklyn Bedding use PCMs in performance fabrics for use within their beds.
PCM technology works on the principle that it absorbs body heat when necessary, pull it away if temperatures decrease, and release that heat as needed to warm up sleepers as they cool off during the night – similar to how copper pulls heat away from its body, yet on a larger scale.
8. Cooling Sheets
Excessive heat can inhibit the release of melatonin and make sleeping difficult, so to protect ourselves against overheating we need cooling sheets crafted from fabrics and materials designed to promote breathability, moisture-wicking, and low heat retention. Cooling sheet sets provide this protection.
Most mattresses are composed of various materials that each possess their own cooling properties. Coils and springs, for instance, can help increase airflow in a mattress by having lots of open space between their coils; this allows air to move freely through the support layer to cool comfort layers above it. Foam mattresses tend to retain heat due to both viscoelastic and elastic properties; to combat this heat retention issue some foam mattresses offer ventilation or cooling materials on top layers.
Gel foam was specifically created to be coolant by featuring an absorbent gel layer that absorbs and dissipates heat quickly, while other cooling foams such as aerated latex and advanced polyfoam (an open-cell memory foam equivalent) also work effectively. Finally, Celliant converts body heat to infrared energy for improved muscle recovery and blood circulation.
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